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Dick waited, curious to hear what followed, and incensed at what did; for, when the bandmaster entered, he had glanced sharply at the now bandsman, and then passed on. "Eh! what recruit?" said the little leader, looking up and giving a start as he made believe to see Dick for the first time. "Oh, that young man? Well, perhaps he had better stand by you, and then he may pick up what he can.
Constance, as she ate a little meal in the bedroom, could not but witness the orgy. A bandsman with his silver instrument was prominent at the counter. At five minutes to three the Vaults spewed forth a squirt of roysterers who walked on the pavement as on a tight-rope; among them was the bandsman, his silver instrument only half enveloped in its bag of green serge.
"Every girl in town doesn't skate with barber, or bandsman, or anybody who comes along, as you do." "Watty's been telling!" "Watty hasn't been telling!" broke in our eldest son in indignant protest, which he further emphasized by going out and banging the door after him. "And, Mary," Belle continued, "are you engaged to Mr. Axworthy?" "No!" sullenly.
Three nights later three violins, a flute, a guitar, and a hautboy began another serenade. This time the musicians fled towards Montargis, where there happened then to be a company of comic actors. A loud and ringing voice called out as they left: "To the daughter of the regimental bandsman Mirouet."
It was a copy of "Locke on the Human Understanding." Now, Locke's famous work, oftener named than read, is a very tough and serious bit of philosophical exposition; and a boy of seventeen who buys such a book out of his meagre earnings as a military bandsman is pretty sure not to end his life within the four dismal bare walls of the barrack.
He recalled him as the gentleman who had blocked the exit gate at the railroad-station. I suggested that that was probably because he had lost his ticket. "Lost his ticket! A King's messenger!" The detective was indignant with me. "Impossible, sir!" I told him the story of the drunken bandsman returning from the picnic. "You can't have lost your ticket," said the guard.
It is this that has multiplied the one bandsman and a despised big drum to an army of 27,000 musicians, and it is this-our practice of religion-that has placed Christ in deeds. Arthur E. Copping gives as the reason for the movement's success-"the simple, thorough-going, uncompromising, seven-days-a-week character of its Christianity."
Immediately after tattoo, therefore, he had again despatched his orderly for the bandsman, and in two minutes the latter appeared, knocked, and stood, cap in hand, within the door. Ray turned up the lamp and coolly surveyed his man. The two stood a moment confronting each other in silence. Wolf was very pale, and beads of sweat were starting on his brow, but the blue eyes never flinched.
After telling of being a bandsman at thirteen and a puddler at sixteen, I would like to say that at seventeen I was batting more home runs than Babe Ruth in his prime, but everything I say must be backed up by the records, and when my baseball record is examined it will be found that my best playing on the diamond was done in the band.
"Only nerves!" said Dick, in a low tone, involuntarily repeating the man's words. "Yes, that's it. Keep cool, and you'll soon come right. Feel faint now?" "No, the giddiness has gone off." "That's right." The bandsman ceased speaking, for he had to take his part again, as the rear of the new regiment marched past with the mounted officers.
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